Arepa Lady Has 6 Months Left in Shop After Demolition Permits Approved

An arepa from the Arepa Woman restaurant. View Full Caption

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JACKSON HEIGHTS — The house owners of Arepa Woman’s brick and mortar store say they’ve six months left on 77th Road after demolition permits have been accepted by the town.

“The permits to tear down our constructing have been accepted,” they wrote within the tweet despatched Tuesday night. “Arepa woman has 6 months left.”

They later tweeted they did not assume they might struggle the demolition, and would as an alternative give attention to discovering a brand new residence in Jackson Heights.

“We’re in sort of a limbo,” Alejandro Osorio, the son of Maria Cano, the Arepa Woman, informed DNAinfo New York. “We’re in search of an area within the space however the rents are loopy.”

He added they’d like to discover a greater location to suit a bar and bigger kitchen, ideally on thirty seventh Avenue.

The constructing was bought in 2014 for $three.6 million, and in December the house owners filed plans for a combined-use constructing, in accordance with metropolis data.

The brand new constructing could have floor-flooring business shops and forty four flats on the highest 5 flooring, data present.

Cano started promoting her Colombian specialties out of a cart on Roosevelt Avenue greater than 30 years in the past.

She and her household moved to the restaurant in 2014, and Osorio renovated the previous delivery retailer for a everlasting place off Roosevelt.

The constructing can also be residence to a restaurant referred to as La Chipotle, a soccer uniform retailer, and Mohan’s Tattoo Store, which was opened final yr by a well-known Nepali tattoo artist.

Vishal Arora of the forty two-25 Realty group, a subsidiary of Magnus Capital Companions that owns the constructing, declined to remark until he was allowed to learn a draft of this text earlier than publication.